# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/karen-ellen-smith
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:34:43.516Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/karen-ellen-smith"
name: "Karen Ellen Smith"
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description: "Karen Ellen Smith is an American mathematician, specializing in commutative algebra and algebraic geometry. She completed her bachelor's degree in mathematics at Princeton University before earning her PhD in mathematics at the University of Michigan in 1993. Currently she is the Keeler Professor of Mathematics at the University of Michigan. In addition to being a researcher in algebraic geometry and commutative algebra, Smith with others wrote the textbook An Invitation to Algebraic Geometry."
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birthDate: "1965-05-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump